➝ Path of The Gods — Odin’s Eye — Balanced Life of Ecstasy 🔑

Well, if so, Odin has a family of gods and goddesses to help you find the path to a life of honor, a family life of peace, a personal life of pleasure, and a spiritual life of goodness like the gods.

≽≻ THE PATH OF ODIN: WISDOM

First, there is Odin’s path of wisdom. To get honor in your public life you must be wise. It is an unfortunate fact, if fools seek for honor; they only get shame and rejection instead. To get true honor takes true wisdom. So you must seek the path of wisdom to gain the victory of a life of honor. There is much to be said about both this path of wisdom and the goal of honor, but for now I’ll just say, start asking yourself, “Is this wise?” and “Would this be honorable?” before you do anything. Those two questions will change your life. If you want your life to be different you have to start doing something different. This is your challenge, and the challenge of today’s youth—to begin the pursuit of wisdom and honor which has been lost. No one has taught them because we turned away from our gods of wisdom and honor to get a life of “forgiveness” instead. But Odin still sees the Way, and he calls his offspring back … to life … to his life … the life he created us to have … a life of honor through wisdom. to have … a life of honor through wisdom.

≽≻ THE PATH OF TYR: AGREEMENT

The second path is Tyr’s path of strategic agreement. “Tuesday” is named after “Tyr” who was also called “Tiw” in Old English. Tyr is Odin’s foster son. He is a god of law and order, but he knows people won’t keep laws they don’t agree with. He also knows they won’t keep the order they haven’t agreed to. So different laws and different orders or arrangements must be discussed until everyone agrees with the arrangement, the order. Once they agree, then that agreement becomes the law that everyone agrees to live by. The result is peace. Without an agreement their will be conflict and quarrels over whose “will” will be done. Where there is lawlessness and disorder, then Tyr engages in the process of achieving law and order, and that is war. Not mere “battle” like Thor using the force of will, but strategic warfare, well thought out, and organized with foresight to establish law and order that results in peace.

The gods do not support unorganized violence. “Rebellion” like that of teenagers against their parents, or rioters against the police force, is mere lawlessness and disorder. Tyr will condemn it because it does not have a plan to replace the established order with something better, something that will result in peace. “Revolution” is what the gods will support. For revolution has behind its resistance, a plan, a strategy for a better life than the present order of things after the battle. Therefore, before teenagers decide to resist their parent’s law and order, they should have a well devised plan of how to live a better life on their own. But even so, too much “law and order” can become oppressive and destructive as it crushes the diversity in life to make it conform to the “law and order.” Diversity produces “variety” which is “the spice of life.” So, Tyr needs his foster-father Odin on the throne (in control), so law and order doesn’t get out of control, that is, out of balance. Tyr represents the self-discipline, the structure we need in life to create a pattern of living. But even self-discipline must maintain balance. That simply means, what is fair to both sides while allowing for both sides to live differently. So to find peace with variety, we must take Tyr’s path of agreement with Odin’s help.

≽≻ THE PATH OF FRIGGA: LOVE

The third path is of Odin’s wife Frigga. “Friday” is named after Frigga. She is the goddess of divine Love. Just like a good mother loves all her children, Frigga loves all of her sons and daughters. She doesn’t love one over another because that wouldn’t be fair. But she loves each one as special because each one possesses unique needs and special abilities. She wants all her children to experience the pleasure of the goddess Freya, but while doing so, she does not want any one of them to hurt themselves, or the other offspring, in the process. That is what divine love does, it thinks of everyone. It considers everyone’s needs including oneself as it pursues pleasure and the love of life. To seek pleasure with out being loving will result in using others to their hurt. It may be fun at the time, but it leaves a person feeling empty inside. Even seeking pleasure without loving oneself, ones own body, will result in harming ones body to seek pleasure. It may feel good at the time, but later it only causes pain. The path of Frigga is to love oneself and others with a divine love while you seek the pleasures of life. Nevertheless, Frigga is Odin’s wife. So love must be balanced with wisdom. That means one must be wise about loving others. For being wise means being cautious about whom you love, as well as, careful about how much you love. Wisdom says to love the right amount—not too much, not too little. So Odin helps Frigga to love, but love with the right amount.

≽≻ THE PATH OF BALDER: TRUTH

The fourth path is the path of Truth. This is Balder’s path. He is Odin and Frigga’s son. Balder is the god of goodness, righteousness, and truth. Balder was loved by all the gods, in fact all of nature. Why was Balder so loved? Because he represents everything good, everything right, everything true. His path teaches you can’t truly be good without being true. People who try to be good without being true end up feeling guilty, because they know in truth they are not really good, if they haven’t been true. So truth is the path to goodness. The truth about reality, the truth about oneself, the truth about others, all helps one in their pursuit to be good. Without truth you will be sorry trying to be good. This does not mean one is a “goody two shoes.” Balder represents the kind of good that is truly good. That is, when others say, “You know, that person is just good.” It is also when you are lying on your bed at night, before you go to sleep, the conversation you have with yourself says, “You know, you did good today.” That will make you feel good, because the truth is you are good, if you choose to be good. As stated earlier, the word “good” comes from the Old English word “god” according to the dictionary.

So being good, feeling good, doing good, is being, feeling, and doing what a god or goddess would do. That is how we become like them. We become godly or goddessly. But remember Balder is Odin’s son. So being good must be done with wisdom. It must be balanced. Balder is also Frigga’s son. So being good must be done with divine love, that is, thinking of others. Being “too” good or not “good enough” is not truly “good.” These deviations from good occur when someone is trying to be “right” when it is not good or not doing “right” when it would be good. So always ask, “Is it wise to be right in this situation?” “Is it „loving‟ to be right in this situation?” We know it is always good to be wise, but is it always wise to be right? Is it always loving? Because in this strange world we live in, being right in some situations is not wise. Sometimes it is not loving. So ultimately, it is not good. In the Northern Way, “good” may be defined as that which causes well-being in oneself, in others, and in nature, in that order of priority. Leave one of those out and ultimately, it is not “good.”

Odin teaches his son Balder how to be wisely good. Frigga teaches him how to be compassionately good. This is called being righteous. It means being good at the right time, doing good the right way, with the right amount of goodness. “Self-righteous” is when it is right for you, but not right for anyone else when it should be. Odin teaches sometimes you have to be a little bad to do good, to feel good. Not too bad, because then you’ll feel bad, but just bad enough to feel good. That’s the truth. That is the “right” way to be “good.” For example, it is not “right” to speed in your car over the speed limit. It endangers lives unnecessarily. So, that wouldn‟t be “good.” However, what if someone in your car is dying, or a woman is having a baby? Then it is necessary to do something that is normally “bad,” but it would still be good because it is necessary to save life, it is wise. In fact, it would endanger life to be “right” in those situations and follow the speed limit in the name of being “good.” That is what is meant by being “too good.” It is also “right” to be honest, that is, volunteering truth. However, when it comes to hurting feelings  unnecessarily for the sake of “honesty,” it is no longer good, such as, with pregnant women or perhaps children. They are sensitive. They are vulnerable. In those cases sometimes a lie, even though lies are bad, are good when told to spare feelings, such as in times of danger where you don‟t want to cause them undue alarm.

This good, but only when it is harmless, and only when it is necessary. In those cases, it is a loving good thing to do even though it isn‟t “right.” We call this principle in the Northern Way, “Realism is better than Dogmatism.” It is a godly virtue. That’s Odin’s way to balance Balder’s goodness with the wisdom of the Spirit, the wisdom of the wind. Most people are not honest enough to admit it, or not “truthful” enough, but they do it anyway. If you don’t do it honestly, then you will lose control of it. It starts being done in the dark. In that case, Odin can’t help you control it from his throne of self-control, if you are hiding it from him. He can’t help you balance it if you don’t give wisdom control. But by doing so, you will discover the deep wisdom of how being a little bad, if it is loving and wise, is sometimes good, sometimes godly. It is a godly thing to do because being too good is just as bad as being too bad. People get hurt either way. You even hurt yourself either way. So the key to the ‘passage of the gods to a good life of ecstasy is balance, a wise loving balance.

≻ Now with the pathways of the gods and goddesses identified, the Eye of Odin, god’s way of seeing things for our people, would look like this :

≻ Finally, we come to the forces that we can call on to work for us to help draw us toward the center of god’s will for our life. Or they can pull us away outward toward the endless cycle of pain, suffering, and disease found outside god’s will for life.

≽≻ THOR: THE FORCE OF WILLPOWER

These four forces begin first with Thor, the son of Odin who carries the hammer of the gods with him. He represents the Force of Will or “willpower” as some people call it. He is the power of choice. He represents the power driving behind what you have chosen to desire. He is not the power of “desire” itself, for we do not always choose our desires. “Desires” to Thor are sometimes destructive giants. In those cases, we may in fact choose to resist our desires. He is that power of choice to resist them. He can give us that power when we choose to resist, or the power to pursue them when we choose to pursue our desires. Do we choose now to pursue a balanced life of ecstasy? Then he is the power we will need to fight any obstacle in our way to find that life. Thor’s path of force can only enter a balanced life of ecstasy by entering between Odin’s goal of honor, and Tyr’s goal of peace. Those are the double doors he must pass through to enter the apple of god’s eye. The path of Thor’s will, that force of willpower inside us, must pass through the passage ways of Odin and Tyr’s paths of Wisdom and Agreement before willpower will become honorable and peaceful. The path of Agreement forces Thor to align his will with the will of others. The path of Wisdom counsels Thor to choose wisely who he joins his will to by agreement. Thus Odin had a son to force nature into a balance that produces and sustains life.

But willpower without balance can go to extremes, and thereby cause conflicts and unnecessary battles. In that case, unrestrained willpower can carry us away from the apple of Odin’s Eye instead of toward it. So Thor needs his Father Odin on the throne—in control. That is why Odin also represents “self control,” the self-control necessary to maintain balance. If the force of Thor’s will does all these things, he will enter into a balanced life of ecstasy with anyone who follows his force of willpower through the double doors of Tyr and Odin. The hammer Thor carried, called “Mjolnir,” is the lightning hammer of action. Just to choose something and to will it to be is not enough. We must strike quickly and relentlessly with the hammer of action creating the movement we need toward the object we have chosen to desire, hammering and smashing any chaos Jormungand causes, that may get in our way, till we reach the double doors of Odin and Tyr. For it is they who will guide us safely in once we have smashed our way out of the consuming destructive life we lived in the jaws of Jormungand that was eating our life away with endless shame and conflict. But to force our will without Odin and Tyr’s help will only keep us fighting with the serpent forever. We must seek the path of agreement and wisdom to enter in to the life of the gods.

≽≻ DWARFS: THE DARKNESS OF EMOTIONS

The second force that will move us to create a way to escape from the destructive trap of the serpent’s appetite is the Dwarfs. Our ancestors first thought of them as “Dark Elves.” Dwarfs live under ground in the darkness of the earth, down in dark holes and caves of our being where even the dirt of our lives can become hot and fluid like molten lava, where stony hearts can melt in vats of fire to be purified into gold and iron. Then they can be transformed by the Dwarfs, who are master craftsmen, into tools and weapons of iron to fight our way out of the serpent’s belly, and build what we need for the journey to the apple of god’s eye. The Dwarfs represent the darkness of emotion. We can’t “see” our emotions. So they are in the “dark,” but we can “feel” them moving down inside. So we know they exist. Only when they come out into the light do they become solid enough to “see” what they are, solid as rock. Otherwise, they stay down in the darkness of our souls creating things for us, both good and terrible. “Emotions” are “E-nergy-in-motion.”

The Dwarfs made Thor’s hammer for his will to wield. Dwarfs do not care about good and evil. All they care about is themselves, what they want, and they will create anything to get it. But if you want to break free from life in the serpent’s jaws, you must enlist the help of the Dwarfs, the help of the darkness of emotions. They will give the force of your self-will the energy-in-motion you need for action. Are they tricky to deal with? Yes, but if you give your dwarfed-emotions what they want, the attention they deserve, the admiration, the praise they desire, they will give you what you want from weapons of iron-will to fight your battles, to hearts of gold to win your desires. Yes, there are the gates of the underworld they must pass through to enter the golden apple of Odin’s Eye. The darkness of emotions must pass between the gates of Tyr’s agreement and Frigga’s love before they can reach the goals of Tyr’s peace and Freya’s pleasure. Tyr’s path of agreement forces Dwarfs to align their emotions with the emotions of others. Frigga’s path of love brings sensitivity to the emotions of others. Then those emotions are no longer self-centered only, but become sensitive to the feelings of those in the center of Odin’s Eye.

If the darkness of emotions will not pass between these gates to become balanced with Odin’s will, then they will remain self-centered and only feel the pain of emptiness of conflict and quarrels in the belly of the serpent who likes the feeling of those dark emotions writhing around inside him. But if you get tired of feeling trapped in pain and conflict, ask your emotions down inside if they will agree to be loving toward others, enough to find peace and pleasure. So you and they can enjoy the ecstasy of a balanced life of peace and pleasure. In the darkness, they may hesitate and disagree because they are holding on to the great gifts they made for themselves, not for others. But if you explain there will be a trade, so in the end they will lose nothing, but gain even more in the trade, you can soon coax your emotional dwarfs to come along to join you in a balanced life of ecstasy.

≽≻ LOKI: WILD IMAGINATION

The third force to be reckoned with is the wild imagination of Loki, crazy daydreams of possibility, curiosity and change. Loki represents the opposite of law and order. Loki without Odin is a “giant” and so represents destructive desires. Giants are usually enemies of the gods, but Loki is a sworn blood brother to Odin—a blood brother to Balance. So Loki is a “god” in that sense, he is allowed to be among the gods as “good.” The reason is because even though the opposite of order is chaos, not all chaos is bad. Change is chaos in a way. Ever moved with your belongings from one city to another? That is convincing change is chaos. But change can be for the better. Change takes imagination. Fun takes daydreaming about your desires. Loki is subject to come up with any idea, wild and crazy thoughts that are sometimes just funny, sometimes dangerous. Loki represents the wildness of imagination and dreams not yet reality. If things get too “orderly,” Loki will think of something to liven things up and get the party started. Loki makes life fun, as well as scary, but thrilling. All work and no play makes life dull and boring, a life nobody wants to live. So Loki is needed among the gods for variety, change, and excitement. But like the gods, Loki needs Odin as his blood brother, or else wild craziness gets out of hand and begins to hurt and destroy. So he strives to balance his destructive desires by doing creative things as well.

Loki’s wild imagination can dream up fun and excitement using trickery and jokes as easily as he can dream up disaster and death using lies and deceit. He is like the mind run wild with desire for change, for variety, for anything to get life jumping, moving. Loki’s worst torment is to be made to sit still. So if you want to move from wherever you are, all you have to do is use the wildness of Loki’s imagination to come up with ideas to start moving. Let your imagination run wild once you have chosen the direction you desire to go. In order for Loki to enter the apple of Odin’s eye, imagination must pass between the double doors of Balder’s truth and Frigga’s love. These doors help limit the imagination coming up with false ideas that are so selfishly fun they hurt others and end up hurting oneself. If Loki can come up with ideas that make it through the doors of truth and love, then goodness and pleasure will result and provide the next threshold of ideas to enter a life of ecstasy. Loki is one of the most difficult forces to bring under Odin’s control. But if Loki travels with Thor, as he was known to often do in the past, then imagination can be balanced with the force of willpower. In that case, adventure, romance, fun, laughter and thrills can be available for everyone. The wisdom of Odin and the law and order of Tyr help set the boundaries to make sure the party of life that Loki creates wherever he goes does not get out of control, out of the control of Odin’s throne in the center of his will.

≽≻ ELVES: THE LIGHT OF INTELLIGENCE

The fourth and final force that can be used to move from the belly of Jormungand, if you find yourself caught in the grip of guilt and shame, or sorrow and rejection, is by using the light of intelligence of the Elves. Light Elves represent the Light of intelligence and goodwill toward all. They live in the clouds of heaven, the highest, brightest places of our minds can conceive on earth, but they come down and speak to us often. That is, if “speaking” is what it is called. Elves are selfless happy givers of song and music to guide one with light to his or her destination. They know the magic words to say, the soothing songs to sing to make it all better, to calm the crowd, to heal the soul. They know the path from a life consumed by the serpent to the apple of Odin’s Eye. They can show you the way if you will follow the light of elfish intelligence. Frey, the god of fertile prosperity, is said to rule over the Light Elves. Frey is the god that brings the gold to the golden life in the apple of Odin’s Eye. He is the brother of Freya, the goddess of pleasure and beauty. Frey is said to come every year in a ship with a sack of seed-grain for his pillow, a pillow where the head rests and dreams of a better way of life for everyone. Frey leads the elves in how to bring abundance to the world.
 

His seeds of prosperity are sown by those guided by the light of intelligence. But even intelligence, as smart as it is, can be so heavenly minded it is no earthly good. This is when “plans” go awry, and result in getting caught up in the hurricane of Jormungand’s path. So it must pass through the gates of Truth and Wisdom to become functional intelligence applicable to real life on earth. Beyond those gates, intellect must be purified in its intent and motive by passing through the gates of goodness and honor. For many brilliant minds use their intelligence for evil and dishonorable schemes to obtain personal prosperity. Intelligence can also give a false sense of power if it is not grounded in truth. The light of thought can often overlook feelings and emotions resulting in illusions that end in pain. In fact, the truth is we experience forces in life like needs, “willpower” and “desires of hopes and dreams” that aren’t “thought out” at all. They are felt originally and merely pop up images in our minds. Even “logic” can be deceiving as an impostor for truth. The paths of Balder’s truth and Odin’s wisdom force thought to consider more than “logical” plans. They force thought to seek the counsel of wisdom in how to involve all those forces and needs, hopes and desires, dreams and expectations, into the plans of intelligence.

Taking all these four forces of Thor, of Dwarfs, of Loki, and of Elves anyone can escape the consequences of leaving the apple of God’s eye. That is, those who have left the path of the gods: the paths of wisdom, agreement, love, and goodness in the effort to find honor, peace, pleasure, and goodness without the gods, and wound up getting carried away in the wind of Jormungand’s foul breath.Now putting all these forces in place, Odin’s Eye would look like the second image presented The only thing you have to do now is determine where you are in life. Maybe only one area is being eaten by the World Serpent, while you have reached your goal in another area. Then all you need to do is follow the path of the god or goddess to fix your problem area using the forces closest to it for help until your entire life is within the golden apple of God’s eye. Our ancestors believed the gods ate golden apples made by the goddess Idunna to give them eternal youth and thereby eternal life. No god would condemn a person or family who lived off of the “golden apple” described above to find an eternal way of life for their home. This is the Northern Way. Use the map. Find the gold. Find your way home to live the good life of ecstasy!

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